Job 36:32
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In manibus abscondit lucem, et præcepit ei ut rursus adveniat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἐκάλυψεν φῶς, καὶ ἐνετείλατο περὶ αὐτῆς ἐν ἀπαντῶντι·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל כַּפַּ֥יִם כִּסָּה א֑וֹר וַיְצַ֖ו עָלֶ֣יהָ בְמַפְגִּֽיעַ
Haydock's commentary
Hands, or clouds, which are compared to a hand, 3 Kings xviii. 44. He opens his hand, and light appears. This expression denotes the utmost facility with which a very surprising thing is effected.
To come. Hebrew, "by this obstacle." He alludes to the sun's eclipse, as if God's hand covered its disk. (Calmet)
Protestants, "He....commandeth it not to shine, by the cloud that cometh betwixt."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.